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Subject: Re: HN thread about CouchDB
From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:29:53 +0100
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> On 13 Jan 2015, at 10:21 , Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I don't follow what you mean about hiding details. What details? Why =
to hide?
> The problem with ddocs we have is not only documentation, but also
> lack of tools to works with them. We admit couchapp thing as a feature
> and ship a tool to develop and manage them with easy. Yes, there are a
> lot of them in the wild: kanso, couchapp (python), couchapp (nodejs),
> erica...but that's not a deal to provide a feature and tell our users
> to seek or make a tools to work with it.

My point is that this is a level of complexity that users should never
have to deal with. They should just be able to say =E2=80=9Cindex these =
fields,
make it sortable by that field, do this aggregation=E2=80=9D. Not =
managing map.js
files with filesystem tools.


>=20
> --
> ,,,^..^,,,
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>> Heya (excuse the HN link),
>>=20
>> this is not necessarily something for the weekly news, but I think =
this is a useful summary of how people think about CouchDB in the wild. =
I=E2=80=99m not suggesting this is representative, but it can help guide =
us in what we want to do for our marketing activities, if we are not =
happy with how people think about CouchDB:
>>=20
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D8865079
>>=20
>> I found the comment about design docs most interesting: =
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D8865687 (although I should send =
this to dev@). We should think hard about hiding this detail away from =
end-users.
>>=20
>> Best
>> Jan
>> --
>>=20


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